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Click “check for updates” to see if you’re up to date. Click the gear icon and select “About Chrome OS” at the bottom of the left-hand menu.

To update, head to the settings menu in the bottom right system tray. You will need to make sure that your Chromebook is up to date and that it supports Linux applications. I took a few minutes to figure out what was missing from the equation and now, we know exactly how to install the program on Chrome OS. One user was looking to install the e-book manager but was running into some unexpected errors. I first encountered Calibre on the Facebook Chromebook group that we highlighted last week.

The open-source e-book management software is completely free and lucky for Chromebook users, there is a Linux version. For many, Calibre is the one-stop-shop for managing an extensive, multi-platform catalog. I’m more into old fashioned analog reading myself but I am fully aware that millions of people take to their Kindles, Nooks, iPads and mobile devices to digest daily content and that’s totally fine.Ĭhrome OS has some web-based options for reading e-books and even more options if you look to the Google Play Store but what if you already have a library of publications. With the smaller, tablet-first devices coming, many users may want to use their Chromebook tablets as their primary reader. Kobo also did some much needed battery optimization, and this is really welcome, since it has been lambasted by users of having terrible battery life.Chrome OS tablets are still finding their place in the consumer market but the pending release of the Duet Chromebook from Lenovo could open the floodgates for the form-factor. My Notebooks will move from the More menu to the bottom navigation when the Kobo Stylus is detected and Kobo fixed a bug where the zoom preview window for PDFs was not displaying correctly. The Kobo Sage has gained some note taking and PDF viewing features. You can hide book covers or make them full screen in Settings > Energy saving and privacy.

Book Covers will now display on the home screen for users who bought a Kobo at FNAC. There is also a host of other features, such as enhanced language support and dictionaries for Catalan, Simplified Chinese and Pinqin. The Kobo 6 update is now being pushed out to the vast majority of Kobo devices, excluding the Mini. This will certainly resonate well with people who are concerned with privacy and simply want to read their own books, instead of buying them from Kobo. You can basically use the Kobo has an e-reader only. This also will allow users to not have to connect to a WIFI network or any of the sync services. This will allow you to load in your own books on the Kobo, without having to register or sign-in to a Kobo account. Kobo has just unveiled a new sideload system for all of their modern e-readers.